My sister went to America, with my cousins who live in Manhattan and one evening they had a few friends round about 9 of them and the had a quiz on American History, the English girl won it 🤣🤣🤣💕💕 she couldn’t believe it and felt second hand embarrassment for them .
I have a 24 year old daughter with intellectual disabilities, and she answered more of these questions than these young people did. She has an approximate IQ of 55 to 68. She has severe learning disabilities and can not read or write, but she listens. There is no excuse for the ignorance of these people!
This has nothing to do with your comment, but I must tell you. In the past, I worked with people with disabilities and you parents are my heroes. I got nothing but joy when working with them. However, I wasn’t the one going to doctor and therapy appointments, fighting for their rights, losing sleep, making decisions, etc. I believe that you will get a special crown in heaven. May God bless you and your family. 😊
@@debriddle2 thank you for such kind words, and thank you for doing whatever you could offer to make our special kids lives better! I'm no hero. I'm just my daughters mom, and I do what most moms try to do. Help my children get through life, and hope I do it well enough that she will be okay when I'm gone.
@@bcaye Oh yes there is it is called WELFARE and that is one of the reasons these young people are so dumb. They see their parents sitting on their ass not working so why should they. Generational WELFARE and generational IGNORANCE!
I graduated high school nearly 40 years ago and am appalled at these people for not being able to answer questions a child should be able to answer. Our world is doomed omg
When my son was in 1st or second grade they were learning how to tell time on a regular clock, his teacher was surprised that he was the only one in the class that knew how to tell time that wasn’t digital. She asked me where he learned it. I told her he’s had a regular clock face watch. I refused to get him a digital watch because I wanted him to know how to tell time.
Why do you think red states have been slowly defunding education for years? It's easier to manipulate and control the uneducated who don't possess the skills to comprehend complex issues or distinguish fact from fiction.
It doesn’t help that books are being banned in schools. It also doesn’t help that college courses that have been taught for decades are now considered “illegal” or immoral. It makes me wonder how ignorant our society will become. Our only hope is that these kids rise up and rebel against this intellectual and cultural tyranny!
Just be a good human. You are watching and promoting cherrypicked results in ageist, racist, anti-black, anti-minority, and anti-LGBTQI+ propaganda. Go do the experiment, yourself, and use subjects from various generations. Find out the truth.
I was a baby of the 60's, child of the 70's and young adult of the 80's. I am so glad I grew up in the household that I did. My parents had collectively a total of 13 years of education and were the smartest people I knew. Books and records were our entertainment. One tv in the house. My mom in between jobs took me to the opening of our library for my own card. I traveled the world through books,Nat Geo magazines and documentaries. I knew music from opera to R&B. To see these generations with access to the world literally in their hands and no nothing of any substances beyond the names of Kardashians and bad fashion trends is apalling.
I am a 58 year old man, if there is one thing I am thankful for everyday. Is that I was raised by my mother who was a Librarian. As a kid I read almost anything I could get my hands on and listened to every record album I could find. We are the lucky ones, Take care:)
I'm the same age. My dad had an AA degree in accounting from a local community college. Still, both of my parents were the smartest people I knew. We had books everywhere, and whenever I asked a question about the world, my parents would encourage me to look it up. The worst part is that all of these kids could look up anything in the world, as easy as pie, but they know absolutely nothing.
I was born in 75. I worked for 22 years as a self educated electrical engineer. I've been watching the young ones slowly replace their skills with smartphones. It seems we are in the loss of comprehension stage right now. They have been attached to their devices for so long that skills which used to come naturally no longer come at all. And, when confronted with these facts, they ignore their own ignorance. It will just get worse from this point........ I don't see how it can go any other way, unless being smart becomes the new punk rock.
Yes they are out there and this is a testimony and a wake up call to issues we are facing as a nation. Sadly there are those who "love the uneducated" and want to keep them that way. On the other hand, there ARE schools that teach that stimulate young minds and parents and kids that want to avail themselves of that kind of education. The BIG issue is that quality needs to be available to all, and the more disadvantaged a kid is the MORE they need that. We ARE throwing away our future, our kids future.
My eldest child is nearly 49, his education was fine, but his year group was the first to have new style exams in their final year. As parents we were shown sample exam papers for each of the subjects prior to them starting the 2 year course. I was appalled at the fact that as I read through the papers I could answer most of the questions even though it was years since I even thought about these things. This was the first downgrading thing I had come across. My third child was disgusted when he started school, he thought he would learn to read when he started school and being given a brand new book to bring home was what upset him. The book flew across the room as he came through the door with a barrage of shouting ...because the book had NO WORDS IN IT!!!. Then when he started senior school the government had given the schools new rules where teachers where NOT allowed to mark a book with red pen (it might upset the child). They were NOT allowed to correct spelling mistakes (it could stifle the child's creativity) and many more idiotic things. By the time they had left school I took a job as a teaching assistant and was Horrified at the intelligence and /or teaching skills of some of the teachers. Some of them openly admitted that they could not spell/did not understand basic maths. Another teacher was trying to tell the class that we "borrowed" the word July from the Romans (as she put it "from Julius the Caesar !") When I turned from what I was doing and explained to the children that August was gained in the same way this "Teacher" then said..."Was there more than 1 Caesar?" My children said that "The government want at least one generation of uneducated people!!!!! I think that's more than likely true. Given these last few years , I think I see why!!!
One teacher knows math. Another knows English. Send homework home and expect the parents to know all subjects. Teachers get mad and jealous when parents are smarter
No cursive, no clocks. Sometimes I'm glad I'm old. My parents would be in their 90's now and I feel so lucky to know about people, places, and things from their generation and beyond.
Just be a good human. You are watching and promoting cherrypicked results in ageist, racist, anti-black, anti-minority, and anti-LGBTQI+ propaganda. Go do the experiment, yourself, and use subjects from various generations. Find out the truth.
This is unbucking believable!! It’s no wonder that our teachers are not doing their job at all! This is crazy!! I’m not even laughing at this at all. SHAME!! It goes to show how bad we are right now than how good we were some 50 years ago. Thanks for sharing this. ✌🏻🇺🇸✌🏻
Just be a good human. You are watching and promoting cherrypicked results in ageist, racist, anti-black, anti-minority, and anti-LGBTQI+ propaganda. Go do the experiment, yourself, and use subjects from various generations. Find out the truth.
I'm not surprised. I got a medium coffee at Dunkin donuts it cost 2.50 and I gave the person a 5 dollar bill. He didn't know how much change to give me back. Mind blowing.
Whenever I used to break a $100 bill, I would joke with the cashier "can I break this and get five 10s and five 20s?" Today I think I might actually get the five 10s and five 20s.
I once gave a guy exact change at a movie theater and his mind blew a fuse. He asked me to just give him a 20 so he could just type in 20 and the machine could tell him what to give back.
I’m just so sad (as an English women in her 50s) that these kids literally have no awareness of where they are in their country, their continent, their world, their galaxy, what time it is, how to add up very basic numbers, what basic history went before them….what on Earth do they actually know?! Only what the Kardashian’s are up to! 😳😳😳😳💚🧡
I'm so glad that my kids are from the last Generation that actually learned something.. It's sad that see that these are the best we have today.. God help us all ...
With so many bad things happening right now it is just horrible to know that our children are so ill equipped to deal with the horrors to come. They are doomed already and they don't even know it.
I have a 25 year old. She knew all of these. I also saw to her education. She is now married and pregnant. I will see to my grandchildren as well. I will not have my grand-kid walking around the streets and can't look up in the sky to see how many moons we have in the sky. /smh
@@serinadelmar6012 haha. Not really because my daughter is not great at general trivia. I guess more relief than anything. Though, serious about the grand baby. I am not having an iPad baby at my house. STEM, art and hands on fun!. Kids deserve as much.
@@zandarrthegreat6790 bless you. I completely agree with that re iPads, and making art is so wonderful, nature too. There are so many beautiful things that offer opportunities for learning and joy beyond a screen. Your grandbaby is lucky to have you. ♥️
I knew this guy in high school in the late 80s. I am trying to remember how it started, but someone asked him to look at the clock on the wall and give the time. His response was, "I can only read digital". We all lost it that day.
Just be a good human. You are watching and promoting cherrypicked results in ageist, racist, anti-black, anti-minority, and anti-LGBTQI+ propaganda. Go do the experiment, yourself, and use subjects from various generations. Find out the truth.
He must have simply been a lazy dolt. I graduated public high school in 1987, and every one of my peers that I knew could tell time. Then again, I was in the national honor society, my friends were smart, etc.
I'm a boomer and I can answer all of these questions and so can my children who are 31 and 21. My 98 year old dad can answer all of these questions also. This is so very sad. The parents of these young people did not do their job and neither did the school districts they were in. Dear Parents it IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to make sure YOUR CHILDREN LEARN!
You received an education, a school and a home! Hahah, wish they handed out homes with my education as well😉 ..Just kidding. Grammar maybe wasn't on the homeschooling curriculum✌🏼
@@fangofsilver5537 The only grammar error was the comma between "home" and "received" because the "that" relative clause at the end is restrictive (restricts the scope of meaning of the noun it modifies), not non-restrictive. Grammar is a matter of structure, not semantics, so "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" doesn't make any sense, but as far grammar goes, it's fine.
I take comfort in imagining that he interviews a great deal of people, and a lot of them know at least some of these answers, but it wouldn't be very fun to watch those. At least that's what I imagine... ya know, to keep myself sane.
Your right, publics schools are doing a fantastic job !!! Everyone knows the best education comes from big blue cities public schools, with their 10% graduation rate !!!
@@theKrausman ...and you're just a sterling example...Hey, at least we know the grammar teachers are doing a bang-up job. Yeah, many public schools suck, but I didn't see anyone saying otherwise...only that the respondents in the video are cherry-picked...
I am a 58 year old man, if there is one thing I am thankful for everyday. Is that I was raised by my mother who was a Librarian. As a kid I read almost anything I could get my hands on. To this day, right next to my computer I keep a well worn Dictionary. I refuse to use spell check or ask Google the spelling of a word. It's amazing how well you can retain information if you look it up and find it for yourself.
Amen to that Sir. A great many braincells are lacking today, along with good old fashion work ethic, morals, traditions and .. put simply & honestly, .. common sense. 🙏👍
It's sad that nobody answers these simple questions correctly, but whats even sadder is that the one asking the questions agrees with them with a "yes" and doesn't give them the answer ...
If you want to really scare yourself, watch the movie "Idiocracy". It's written by Mike Judge, the creator of "Beavis and Butthead". It basically speculates about what the future will be like if education continues the way it has been going and if people, especially the younger, more impressionable generations, continue to be fed this horses**t that it's "cool" to be be uneducated and stupid. It's simultaneously funny and terrifying.
My absolute favourite was the "which country did we gain our independence from?" and the girls said something like "but we're canadian", but it's exactly the same answer.
I have a friend whos' job took him into peoples houses. Something that stood out to him was in low income areas, there were NO books to be seen. Maybe a TV program or similar. In higher income areas, there were books everywhere, in the bedroom, lounge room, everywhere.
This is a small example of how the school systems have failed. Not to mention the families that raised these people and the kids themselves for not having any interest in knowing anything other than pop culture. Thanks to Jamel for bringing this to light!
I grew up in a home with precious few books but with parents with HS educations. My parents wore the old dictionary and World Books (remember them?) OUT helping me look things up and learning about the world. Our port town was on a river, and when we watched tankers from around the world come by, we would go home and look up their flags to see what countries they represented and where they were on the (very modest) map. Oh, that the young adults in the video had some interest in learning beyond pop culture.
@@richardhughes8352 You should re-read what I wrote which was blame to both families and the schools. Anyone that ever attended schools know that they hold a great influence to most students. Let's add one more which is the friends they surround themselves with.
The school system can do nothing if the parents are failures. People try to blame the schools but if the kids act like animals there is nothing they can do. If anything we should take kids from the id!ot parents and put them in a community building, then they might have some hope.
This hurts my head and breaks my heart but also infuriates me. I know this is awful but you MUST keep exposing the absolute ignorance and complete lack of basic education of our young people today. This guy is doing a very needed experiment and Jamel, you are helping by showing these to many many people with the popularity of your channel. People NEED to be absolutely disgusted by this insane lack of basic education. People truly need to see this and they need to be offended by such blatant stupidity to the point that they make the decision in their hearts and minds that their kids will never be so stupid. This needs to make parents and teachers angry!!! This needs to make parents and teachers more determined than ever not to let this new wave of careless stupidity continue any further than these unfortunate and very obviously uneducated young people in these videos. Yes, this is very hard to watch and hear but it's the ONLY thing that will inspire and hopefully force a change. This type of stupidity NEEDS to be exposed. It needs to offend everyone who is educated. Feeling sad over this does nothing. Feeling mad can do a lot. You can't use grief for anything at all. You can use anger as strong motivation. Come on people, get MAD at this insane lack of education and motivate to stop it from happening to the next generation of young people. Get mad. Make a change. Please. Love and respect to you, Jamel.
Just be a good human. You are watching and promoting cherrypicked results in ageist, racist, anti-black, anti-minority, and anti-LGBTQI+ propaganda. Go do the experiment, yourself, and use subjects from various generations. Find out the truth.
@@davisworth5114hat’s not accurate at all. With any industry there are always people who don’t finish at the top of their class, but they’re good enough. I’ve know a lot of teachers over the years who were amazing at their jobs, and none of them were dummies. You understand that they purposely went into teaching right? It’s not like the dumbest people in college are teachers because they’re too stupid to do anything else. We’re you on that video? Cause that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
My oldest grandson called me one day while he was in high school, he said granny what’s Pearl Harbor, I said you didn’t learn this in school? He said no, so I explained it to him he had absolutely no clue. And these people are the ones that are going to be our future leaders. This is not only sad but also very scary.
Kids can't answer anything without their cell phone! And then they forget what they found out immediately! we had to go to the library to get our information and with all the work we put in finding the answers to our questions we retained the answers! When I first met my neighbors they had a ten year old son that couldn't tell time, so I taught him how to tell time, and out of the blue when he was fifteen he came up and hugged me and said thank you Grandma Deb, I said what for, he said for teaching me how to tell time when I was little! That melted my heart and he and I are the closest of all of the adopted grandkids. I adopted all of them and they adopted me, nothing legal, just our hearts!
I am a high school teacher in Canada and sadly, I’m not sure that our young people would do much better. So many of these questions could be answered through common sense since he often is giving the answer in the questions. I have thought for many years common sense is missing in our youth. Also, you can teach the students all of this information in engaging ways and apply it to their own lives so they learn it better. They can do well on evaluations. But they are so obsessed with video games and what celebrities are doing that what we have taught them is not important to them. So they forget. If they want an answer, they can Google it. Fast and simple so they don’t need to exercise problem solving or cognitive awareness when they can find what they want with minimal time and effort. These reactions support why I am so concerned for our future. Otherwise, I really enjoy your reactions. ❤You have very good insights and opinions. But then again, we are both old schoolers who actually had to apply ourselves without digital phones (aka - weapons of mass zombification) 😂
I was speaking with a friend who is a teacher. She said that her students would simply mass text the answers to each other during exams. She also said that there was nothing she could do about it as parents had demanded that their children should have constant access to their phones in case of emergency. She estimated that perhaps 10 percent of her students actually knew the material well enough to pass the exams. It’s a world gone mad…
@@ThePittsburghToddy Our students are not allowed to have their phones during tests and they can only use them in class if they are given permission by the teacher. Phones are used in some activities but it varies from school to school. Board policies are set to limit access in the classroom because of distractions.
There’s a simple explanation, they don’t fail at school, I get these kids at work and they fail, and I fire them, sorry, but the world can be hard. School should be too.
I was taught all these questions when I was in pre-school and elementary school. I loved history, geography and math and I still do and I'm still learning. These kids have no future. These are the kids you see on tv destroying their cities and looting their stores. They have nothing to look forward to.
Like you, I am absolutely flabbergasted by these videos. My mother was a teacher for 40 years, and it boggles the mind that people of my generation would be so unaware of how poorly their children and grandchildren are doing. Get rid of Common Core and No Child Left Behind, empower good teachers, and don't let ignorant parents and politicians dictate what's taught in classrooms. If you don't like what your child is being taught, home-school him/her. Don't have time for that? Then don't complain. As the meme says: How to scare the New Generation. Put them in a room with a rotary phone, an analog watch, and a television with no remote. Then leave the directions on how to use in cursive.
Yea you are right. Its not good for the big picture, when u lie to the stupid, because you are not allowed to offend them. If this is getting worse. The us will collapse to the worst 3th world country in mankind history. European Banks already made preparations for the switch from Dollar to Yuan. Because the chance is very great, that us will lose its Nr1 Power very soon.
they cant. my store has interviewed 20 in the last 3 months. havent hired a single one. we did hire a couple before when we were laxer with hiring one was legit mad they had to come at the EXACT same time ever shift and go home at the same time they couldnt just sorta wander in roughly within an hour or two of when they should start and then go home sorta close to the hour their shift ends..
As a person that has done hiring and interviews in the recent past they actually cannot. They can't answer questions, can't visualize a hypothetical situation, show up late and are some are dressed inappropriately.. they answer some questions with a shrug and I don't know. It's really sad and scary
A recent article in USA Today said that employers are finding that they’re needing to terminate Gen Z new hires within their first two weeks of employment at seven times the rate of prior generations. Lack of employment skills was not the primary reason for their terminations however, employers overwhelmingly said that lack of productivity and lack of cooperation and willingness to follow instructions were the reasons given.
This is the dumbing down of America. I see it first hand working in a middle school. I only work in the cafeteria but when these children can't answer simple questions you understand how well this dumbing down is working.
My best guess as to why people are so bad at these questions is because they were never taught how to learn. They were only ever taught how to memorize information for tests. So as soon as they are asked something that they didn't memorize, or have forgotten, their brain has a 505 error.
@@thatoneguybones8036 the parents are both working to pay the bills and told the schools are ment to teach there kids, but the schools are designed to make the natural desire to learn shrivel up and die along with creativity and get mindless compliant worker drones that inform on there nabor and support the current thing.
@@thatoneguybones8036 the internet, tv, friends, video games, and books in a library also provide information. Observing anything at all provides information.
I was never told how to learn and became a doctor. The problem with these kids is that they just don’t care for the world around them. You can learn something even by reading the TV guide- if you are interested.
@@Celisar1 True as well. However you most likely did not go threw the same school system. It gets worse every year. It has been killing off the desire to learn and creativity. I only survived it because I gave up on school teaching me anything and mostly taught myself. Society and parents who treat there kids like they can do no wrong arn't helping either. Side note if I used the wrong there, it's because I find it dose not matter, seeing as all the spellings sound the same when you say them out loud and nobody questions what spelling of it you mean.
My nephew and niece are 35 and 31 years old and the difference between their public school education was shocking. Washington state passed some education law and the school district started teaching to the state test. My sister would ask her daughter's teachers about different things her son had done and they said it's not on the test so we can't spend classroom time on it. My niece graduated not knowing basic knowledge that her brother knew because of this test she had to take. I don't know if it got better or worse in the thirteen the years since she graduated but I fear it's worse now.
Just be a good human. You are watching and promoting cherrypicked results in ageist, racist, anti-black, anti-minority, and anti-LGBTQI+ propaganda. Go do the experiment, yourself, and use subjects from various generations. Find out the truth.
Jamal, I remember coming home from school one rainy day and was late home. My mum asked where I had been and I told her - truthfully- that my friend and I got disctracted making leaf and flower boats and floating them along the gutters. She didn't believe me at first because we were 15. But we were just enjoying one of those things we used to do as little kids.
It isn't anything having to do with cell phones! As a 63 year old woman with a 40 year old daughter that used to be quite intelligent couldn't answer any of these questions when I was telling her about the video! But hey they all look cute and they can giggle and wiggle and know all the Kardashians and that's where it's at!
Do you know what happens to a teacher who insists that the students learn, complete homework on time, pass tests, etc? They get fired. They get fired because the parents of these kids complain that their kids aren't happy about being forces to learn.
FACTS!!!!!! A teacher I know told a kid to get of their phone 3 times. After the 3rd time, the student was sent to the office and the parent was notified. Then, the teacher was written up for unprofessional behavior.
@@coach4732Wow, what i saw and heard in this video is so sad. I was thought that the kids of today is our future. omg….i’m starting to fear the future of my now adult kids
They can get exceptions, and opt out of standardized testing. Because it's "not the parents or the childs fault" it's the way schools teach them. Take responsibility to educate and teach your kids, don't give them special treatment to let them skirt their education because you can't handle making sure they are learning and getting the education they deserve and need.
Social media has given young folk the attention span of a mosquito on meth. If you ask a question longer than 6 or 7 words, they lose interest before you finish the question.
my neighbors kid has legit been brain damaged by unrestricted game and tv coupled with no parenting. when he speaks to his boy, he has to grab his chin with his hand and force the kid to look at him while hes asking or explaining things to him,or he will just look around for a TV screen to stare at and completely ignore him.. of course dad blames mom for him being like that, and mom blames dad and neither do a damn thing to sort him out. hes 10 years old and already utterly dysfunctional. he will go from childhood to living off government handouts without ever having worked a day in his life or having done a single useful thing.. he cant even make friends because he never wants to do anything but watch inane little ( too little for his age) kid shows and play video games and he gets upset when the other kids want to go outside and ride bikes or play an outdoor game.. SMH
I'm a (dutch) teacher. Not gonna do my own reaction video, but here are some of my thoughts. I think you are correct about the phones. Believe it or not, we have been saying this since smartphones and even the internet became a thing. We have been shshed and told that common knowledge isn't that important any more and we should adjust our teaching accordingly. Same for language learning etc. ("In the future our devices will do that for us"). Secondly, too much people telling us how to do our work, too little trust by school admin and parents, and too much administrative s*** makes our core jobs so so much harder... Add to that special ed kids in regular school systems. Well... I could go on... I get that these videos are supposed to let people do 🤦🏼♀️ or 😂, but I feel for these kids. They have been robbed. And not being able to answer some of these questions will actually make their life harder. Makes me sad.
the phones and the internet happened ALONGSIDE the societal change that made education decline BOTH of those things could be used to provide an AMAZING education as they are merely tools but a shovel digs graves as well as it digs farms.. its the over permissive lazy society we created that made kids stupid.
I hoenstly agree that teaching general knowledge is not as important as it was in the past. I nthe past it gave an advantage in certain jobs and it can increase the salary based on having that knowledge. but now it's accessible at any time, so it's no longer a big advantage. If that was the only area where it's needed then yes, teaching it is not important. But, general knowledge has a role in so many other aspects in our life. It's important to know continents and countries when voting on foreign policy. It's important to know the details of your country and other countries to avoid getting fooled by people and especially politicians. (Those are just small examples). So yeah, it's still crucial to teach knowledge. In my personal opinion, if teaching needs to change something, it would be to teach people HOW to get the knowledge more than memorizing facts. the amount of necessary knowledge is increasing too much, and teachers can't be expected to provide all of that. But if teachers guide student towards the how, that would help them even more.
@@samygafsi6429 Yes, I'd agree on the need to teach the how. And add to that the way to weigh information. And have their own valuesbased opinion on things. I also believe that as a society we should think about the consequences of letting technology take over certain things. Example. I'm a language teacher. I see (and can appreciate!) technology playing a part in translation and such. The students are less and less capable of learning and retaining vocabulary. I have to assume that will have its influence on their learning ability as a whole, the way they relate to other countries/cultures, etc.
@@nathaliebeijen7244 I see it the same way as you. And to be clear, I don't place the blame on teachers. The education system is the one that needs to adapt a little bit, to be more precise, the testing methods needs to be adjusted. Not everything should be tested as a memory test, that doesn't make sense. Just like testing with an essay with language, science materials should be tested with some experiments, research and other methods as well. but mostly, I believe that the parents, society and media play the biggest role in the student life. If parents fail to push the kids confidence to ask question and dicover new things, they will not pay attention or engage in class. If parents or society kills the natiral curiosity of the kid, then they are doomed.
I know it’s funny that he just says yes to everything, but it’s also kind of contributing to their ignorance. They don’t learn and then they think they’re right.
It would take an entire day for him to explain to any of these persons, on an individual basis, factual information, and he is trying to create content. And it keeps the interviewees happy and willing to screw up the following questions for our amazement and incredulousness. Time to move to Thailand or Vietnam where they know much more about American history, math, and any other subject whatsoever.
They wouldn't learn anyway. He tried repeatedly to explain to that last girl that if she were born 10 years ago, she would be 10 now, and she just kept saying "No".
Now this explains so much now - and they are walking around NOT knowing this information that used to be taught in our schools and on PBS and National Geographic. Also if I had reacted to these basic questions my parents would've swatted by beeehind.
I live in Europe and we had to learn 2 foreign languages in school, plus latin. I hated school, but now I am glad that my teachers insisted that we study, study, study. This makes me sad for these kids
I can vouch for the fact the overall a European education is vastly superior to American education. I have been hiring kids out of college for my business for years and I can vouch for the fact that there's an enormous difference in the educational quality of college graduates from 30 years ago vs now. This is a long-standing problem and it's getting so much worse.
@@elemar5 Uh, not considered a foreign language. It’s a DEAD language but has enormous impact on vocabulary knowledge, the romance languages’ structure and vocabulary and is used in law and other areas. I took two years of Latin (and French) in high school and it’s definitely useful.
I went to college after 32 years, and the counselor told me I would do better than new graduates from high school on the placement test. Guess what, I did.
When I returned to college in my late 20s, I had to take some basic level English courses for the degree. Very few of the youngsters in the class had learned how to write ANYTHING. This was in the 1970s. So what we are seeing now is a slow but steady decline in education. How low can it go? Wait 10 years. I'm glad I'll probably not be around, but I have kids and grandkids I worry about.
Not surprised. I went back to college when I was 27. Already had a bunch of college credits, but was required to take basic level English. No biggie. I think the instructor asked us to write a short essay (2-3 pages or so) on some subject. Also no biggie. The majority of the kids in the class were totally freaked out because they had never been asked to turn in a paper before. I was required to write term papers every semester in my junior and senior years of high school, plus papers in 9th and 10th grades. That was 40+ years ago, but I knew then that the educational system was failing. A young lady I know is a college English teacher. She is so discouraged because the kids in her classes are totally incapable of writing, and of course, they don’t read. They are functionally illiterate when they graduated from high school. Unless America improves its educational system-and in a hurry-just to teach basic reading, writing, math, to turn out literate graduates, you can forget any progress in America. All this BS about America being the “greatest country in the world” is total propaganda. Combined with social media and smartphones, we’re quickly becoming a nation of morons who think they are educated…and they aren’t even close. All this talk about parents controlling their kids’ education is hogwash. If the PARENTS are illiterate, their kids are going to be worse. And they certainly are.
Interesting points, Jamel. I loved popsicle sticks so much, that I have saved up boxes and boxes to use to make art and science projects (My wife hates that I have boxes all over the place.) I have raced a few of them in the gutter as well. I had forgotten about that! I think smart phones have made the problem worse, but I remember seeing the same types of lack of knowledge from kids who watched too much TV. You are right, though. I don't see kids even riding bikes anymore. Thanks for you comments and for keeping it real!
Yes. Exactly. An analog clock, you get the time from a quick flick of the eyes over the dial..with digital, you actually have to pause and concentrate briefly to read it.
wow that must be like the most pointless job these days. especially if you try and teach ACTUAL US history.. like Irish were the first slaves here not africans and the democrats were pro racism and slavery thorughout their whole existence..
Can you imagine having to depend on any of these youngsters ? I'm 70 and take care of my 90 year old Mother. I can't help but believe that anyone these kids have to care of will be abused.
If it's any consolation, I went to UCLA in my old age, and met a bunch of young people there. They were so smart and motivated to learn. They all had big dreams and wanted to change the world for the better. What we're seeing here is the worst examples. Not all young people are dumb, you can be sure of that.
Shout out to you bro, my name is also Jamel, I'm from Barbados and I too share memories of racing sticks, paper boats or whatever floats in the gutters after school in the rainy season. Peace and love.
if this was´nt so sad i´d be lmao...i´m 43 and when i see this i´m speechless...wtf is happening to the younger generations, the mental decay i´m witnessing seems to be the biggest threat for mankind...! but rest assure this is not just in america, this is global...grew up in cali and been living in germany the past 26 years and travelled alot especially threw europe and the sh*t i´ve seen on a daily basis coming from these generation xyz´s is beyond belief and just blows my mind! if this is our future then fck climate change or evil a.i. humanity is doomed no matter what!
I feel extremely fortunate, I was schooled in California in the 50's and 60's, outstanding education. Joined the Army in 69 and travelled the world. I soon learned how much the school system did not teach, so I started self learnng, the school system is in the ICU on life support.
I'm form England and its just the same here all brain dead and I haven't got a clue what they learn at school it's scary that this is our future . Love your content and keep it up my friend .
Just remember that the interviewer probably asked about three or four hundred people and received correct answers but showed us four dozen or so of the most absurd answers.
I wondered about that. It makes good UA-cam content. But, those kids looked 'normal'. They didn't seem to be idiots. I think these 'normal' kids needed a decent education.
I'm a Canadian and I knew the answers to all of these questions so we are all not stupid up here. It does show you though that youth from all over are so out of touch. I was travelling a few weeks ago, now I'm a woman pushing 60 and I was surrounded by people in this age group, and every single one of them spent the trip staring HARD at their phones and eating chips! I would just shake my head and go back to reading my book and I'm sure if they happened to notice I was there, they probably thought I was the one that was out of touch. lol I want to say in defense of the people in the video that they were out partying so they could be drinking or high but I did those things when I was that age and could still answer those questions...yup, even who was the American Vice President at that time (at age 22), it was George H. W. Bush. I was not interested in politics but I was raised in a house that watch the nightly news and still do. Love you channel and please never change. Take care
These questions ahould have been able to be answered by someone in the third grade! They DO NOT read. They don't know how to write. They can't even do simple arithmetic. Totally ignorant and just stupid.
I assure you, not all younger people are as 'special' as the ones featured in these videos. Concerning the cell phones, let's be honest and call it what it is, an addiction which is out of control and incurable.
My mom, who is 88, and watched this. She said that these kids wouldn’t pass the basic Alzheimer’s screening test 😬.
Tell her she is correct...and very astute!
Yes they could. The old timer’s screaming test? Easy. Just put in your AirPods to block out the screaming.
😂😂😱
This is soooo painful to watch!
My sister went to America, with my cousins who live in Manhattan and one evening they had a few friends round about 9 of them and the had a quiz on American History, the English girl won it 🤣🤣🤣💕💕 she couldn’t believe it and felt second hand embarrassment for them .
I have a 24 year old daughter with intellectual disabilities, and she answered more of these questions than these young people did. She has an approximate IQ of 55 to 68. She has severe learning disabilities and can not read or write, but she listens.
There is no excuse for the ignorance of these people!
This has nothing to do with your comment, but I must tell you. In the past, I worked with people with disabilities and you parents are my heroes. I got nothing but joy when working with them. However, I wasn’t the one going to doctor and therapy appointments, fighting for their rights, losing sleep, making decisions, etc. I believe that you will get a special crown in heaven. May God bless you and your family. 😊
These kids today get their education through msm, hollywood, and the music industry…sadly. The “dumbing down” of America is complete.
@@tonymusolino2369 the way they talk. If you ask these people about celebrities, they'll probably known better than having simple questions like that
@@debriddle2 thank you for such kind words, and thank you for doing whatever you could offer to make our special kids lives better!
I'm no hero. I'm just my daughters mom, and I do what most moms try to do. Help my children get through life, and hope I do it well enough that she will be okay when I'm gone.
@@jonok42 Ahh, sweet lady. Wish we were neighbors. But maybe we will be on the other side.
“You can lead a child to knowledge, but you can’t make him think.” - Robert A. Heinlein
Another quote applicable-TANSTAAFL
(There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.)
Because they stopped teaching critical thinking
Heinlein was right that only Veterans should be allowed to Vote/Hold Public Office.
@@bcaye There is. Just depends on where you go for you lunch and how old you are.
@@bcaye Oh yes there is it is called WELFARE and that is one of the reasons these young people are so dumb. They see their parents sitting on their ass not working so why should they. Generational WELFARE and generational IGNORANCE!
I graduated high school nearly 40 years ago and am appalled at these people for not being able to answer questions a child should be able to answer. Our world is doomed omg
When my son was in 1st or second grade they were learning how to tell time on a regular clock, his teacher was surprised that he was the only one in the class that knew how to tell time that wasn’t digital. She asked me where he learned it. I told her he’s had a regular clock face watch. I refused to get him a digital watch because I wanted him to know how to tell time.
The “Dumbing of America”. So sad actually. 🇺🇸
Yeah, from recent research it seems the Flynn Effect stopped just after the turn of the millennium and we have been trending downward ever since.
Why do you think red states have been slowly defunding education for years? It's easier to manipulate and control the uneducated who don't possess the skills to comprehend complex issues or distinguish fact from fiction.
It doesn’t help that books are being banned in schools. It also doesn’t help that college courses that have been taught for decades are now considered “illegal” or immoral. It makes me wonder how ignorant our society will become. Our only hope is that these kids rise up and rebel against this intellectual and cultural tyranny!
@@Pahdopony Anti-intellectualism seems to rule the day. I see it from all sides, it's disheartening.
Just be a good human.
You are watching and promoting cherrypicked results in ageist, racist, anti-black, anti-minority, and anti-LGBTQI+ propaganda.
Go do the experiment, yourself, and use subjects from various generations. Find out the truth.
I'm 70 years old, and I'm so glad that in 20 or 30 years time I'm not going to be alive to see this generation running the country.
I'm right behind you in age and I feel the exact same way. The best years of this country are behind us.
60 years old here. I totally agree with what you said. The future of this country is in trouble.
If you’re 70, then 20 years from now you’ll be 50. Oh wait, no, you’ll be 2070. Wait, no, 20 percent. No, I’m bad at math. Japanese?
Yup, your country is screwed.
Dont worry . China and Russia will wipe them all out ,and you ...
I was a baby of the 60's, child of the 70's and young adult of the 80's. I am so glad I grew up in the household that I did. My parents had collectively a total of 13 years of education and were the smartest people I knew. Books and records were our entertainment. One tv in the house. My mom in between jobs took me to the opening of our library for my own card. I traveled the world through books,Nat Geo magazines and documentaries. I knew music from opera to R&B. To see these generations with access to the world literally in their hands and no nothing of any substances beyond the names of Kardashians and bad fashion trends is apalling.
I am a 58 year old man, if there is one thing I am thankful for everyday. Is that I was raised by my mother who was a Librarian. As a kid I read almost anything I could get my hands on and listened to every record album I could find. We are the lucky ones, Take care:)
I'm the same age. My dad had an AA degree in accounting from a local community college. Still, both of my parents were the smartest people I knew. We had books everywhere, and whenever I asked a question about the world, my parents would encourage me to look it up. The worst part is that all of these kids could look up anything in the world, as easy as pie, but they know absolutely nothing.
Me too!
I was born in 75. I worked for 22 years as a self educated electrical engineer. I've been watching the young ones slowly replace their skills with smartphones. It seems we are in the loss of comprehension stage right now. They have been attached to their devices for so long that skills which used to come naturally no longer come at all. And, when confronted with these facts, they ignore their own ignorance. It will just get worse from this point........ I don't see how it can go any other way, unless being smart becomes the new punk rock.
Someone tell me that this has been edited down to all the stupid answers and that most people got the answers right.
Yes they are out there and this is a testimony and a wake up call to issues we are facing as a nation. Sadly there are those who "love the uneducated" and want to keep them that way. On the other hand, there ARE schools that teach that stimulate young minds and parents and kids that want to avail themselves of that kind of education. The BIG issue is that quality needs to be available to all, and the more disadvantaged a kid is the MORE they need that. We ARE throwing away our future, our kids future.
My eldest child is nearly 49, his education was fine, but his year group was the first to have new style exams in their final year. As parents we were shown sample exam papers for each of the subjects prior to them starting the 2 year course. I was appalled at the fact that as I read through the papers I could answer most of the questions even though it was years since I even thought about these things. This was the first downgrading thing I had come across. My third child was disgusted when he started school, he thought he would learn to read when he started school and being given a brand new book to bring home was what upset him. The book flew across the room as he came through the door with a barrage of shouting ...because the book had NO WORDS IN IT!!!. Then when he started senior school the government had given the schools new rules where teachers where NOT allowed to mark a book with red pen (it might upset the child). They were NOT allowed to correct spelling mistakes (it could stifle the child's creativity) and many more idiotic things. By the time they had left school I took a job as a teaching assistant and was Horrified at the intelligence and /or teaching skills of some of the teachers. Some of them openly admitted that they could not spell/did not understand basic maths. Another teacher was trying to tell the class that we "borrowed" the word July from the Romans (as she put it "from Julius the Caesar !") When I turned from what I was doing and explained to the children that August was gained in the same way this "Teacher" then said..."Was there more than 1 Caesar?" My children said that "The government want at least one generation of uneducated people!!!!! I think that's more than likely true. Given these last few years , I think I see why!!!
One teacher knows math. Another knows English. Send homework home and expect the parents to know all subjects. Teachers get mad and jealous when parents are smarter
I have to agree with you, I get so disgusted when I see these videos.
Really sad that almost every one of them think it's hilarious that they're so ignorant.
They all look and act like they've been smoking a little weed, too.
Ignorance is bliss...this is the proof!
These people are disgustingly STUPID.
No cursive, no clocks. Sometimes I'm glad I'm old. My parents would be in their 90's now and I feel so lucky to know about people, places, and things from their generation and beyond.
Just imagine confronting them with a dial phone.
I’m with you on this!! Gen x won’t even be able to read the constitution or a clock ⏰. No cursive ridiculous I’m almost 63 and I’m glad I’m old.
@@BuffaloC305I’ve seen it done with younger people trying to figure out a rotary phone and they looked at it like it was from outer space.
No one uses cursive for anything other than their signatures nowadays.
Just be a good human.
You are watching and promoting cherrypicked results in ageist, racist, anti-black, anti-minority, and anti-LGBTQI+ propaganda.
Go do the experiment, yourself, and use subjects from various generations. Find out the truth.
This makes my average public school education seem like I went to the finest institutions. 🤦♀️
This is unbucking believable!! It’s no wonder that our teachers are not doing their job at all! This is crazy!! I’m not even laughing at this at all. SHAME!!
It goes to show how bad we are right now than how good we were some 50 years ago. Thanks for sharing this.
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I love your reaction. That sharp intake of breath & the look of despair.
I'm Australian, and I know that Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan are part of greater NYC. Jesus wept.
Just be a good human.
You are watching and promoting cherrypicked results in ageist, racist, anti-black, anti-minority, and anti-LGBTQI+ propaganda.
Go do the experiment, yourself, and use subjects from various generations. Find out the truth.
@@boofert.washington2499 boroughs - Burroughs was a writer.
@@seancassidy674Burroughs in this case are small neighborhoods that encompass a major city like New York
This is one conversation Staten Island doesn't mind being left out of.
@faiththomas1749 NYC boroughs aren't neighborhoods, they're counties that consolidated as a city.
I'm not surprised. I got a medium coffee at Dunkin donuts it cost 2.50 and I gave the person a 5 dollar bill. He didn't know how much change to give me back. Mind blowing.
Twelve dollars 👍
Whenever I used to break a $100 bill, I would joke with the cashier "can I break this and get five 10s and five 20s?" Today I think I might actually get the five 10s and five 20s.
I once gave a guy exact change at a movie theater and his mind blew a fuse. He asked me to just give him a 20 so he could just type in 20 and the machine could tell him what to give back.
@@myownchannel247 "yes."
My head hurts
I’m just so sad (as an English women in her 50s) that these kids literally have no awareness of where they are in their country, their continent, their world, their galaxy, what time it is, how to add up very basic numbers, what basic history went before them….what on Earth do they actually know?! Only what the Kardashian’s are up to! 😳😳😳😳💚🧡
Are you schizophrenic as well? Are you women or a woman?
They must live in a very small world. Very sad for them and they didn’t even know it.
I'm so glad that my kids are from the last Generation that actually learned something.. It's sad that see that these are the best we have today.. God help us all ...
I just want to cry for all of them. The "dumbing down of America" is NOT a myth. I feel sick. 😢
With so many bad things happening right now it is just horrible to know that our children are so ill equipped to deal with the horrors to come. They are doomed already and they don't even know it.
The powers that be are thinning out the herd, they are being prepared for the slaughter
They don't want to know , ignorance is bliss !
In our home, we have one daughter, she’s 14. She knows a lot because we educate our child beyond what she learns in school.
I have a 25 year old. She knew all of these. I also saw to her education. She is now married and pregnant. I will see to my grandchildren as well. I will not have my grand-kid walking around the streets and can't look up in the sky to see how many moons we have in the sky. /smh
Keep her away from TikTok. That shit is no joke it's a very sophisticated psyop weapon and I am not exaggerating at all.
@@zandarrthegreat6790 are you really flexing that 25 year old got these questions? 😂
@@serinadelmar6012 haha. Not really because my daughter is not great at general trivia. I guess more relief than anything. Though, serious about the grand baby. I am not having an iPad baby at my house. STEM, art and hands on fun!. Kids deserve as much.
@@zandarrthegreat6790 bless you. I completely agree with that re iPads, and making art is so wonderful, nature too. There are so many beautiful things that offer opportunities for learning and joy beyond a screen. Your grandbaby is lucky to have you. ♥️
I knew this guy in high school in the late 80s. I am trying to remember how it started, but someone asked him to look at the clock on the wall and give the time. His response was, "I can only read digital". We all lost it that day.
The new normal...
Just be a good human.
You are watching and promoting cherrypicked results in ageist, racist, anti-black, anti-minority, and anti-LGBTQI+ propaganda.
Go do the experiment, yourself, and use subjects from various generations. Find out the truth.
He must have simply been a lazy dolt. I graduated public high school in 1987, and every one of my peers that I knew could tell time. Then again, I was in the national honor society, my friends were smart, etc.
@@strangequark420 Quick! What's a 15% tip for a meal that cost $13.28?
You have mere seconds! What is the tip???
Just leave 20%.
Your reactions are priceless 😂 on the other hand, I weep for this country😏
I'm a boomer and I can answer all of these questions and so can my children who are 31 and 21. My 98 year old dad can answer all of these questions also. This is so very sad. The parents of these young people did not do their job and neither did the school districts they were in.
Dear Parents it IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to make sure YOUR CHILDREN LEARN!
These people make me feel so much better about myself.
if you need REALLY stupid people to feel better about your own intelligence, then i feel sorry for all of you..
This makes me so thankful for the education, school and home, that I received.
You received an education, a school and a home! Hahah, wish they handed out homes with my education as well😉 ..Just kidding. Grammar maybe wasn't on the homeschooling curriculum✌🏼
@@fangofsilver5537 The only grammar error was the comma between "home" and "received" because the "that" relative clause at the end is restrictive (restricts the scope of meaning of the noun it modifies), not non-restrictive. Grammar is a matter of structure, not semantics, so "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" doesn't make any sense, but as far grammar goes, it's fine.
Our youth knows nothing, but thinks they know everything....it's a sad state of education in this country....thanks Jamel .....doh!
"isn't the north pole below us?" That was it for me. That was peak brain death.
This is why mail in voting is an absolute SHAM
I take comfort in imagining that he interviews a great deal of people, and a lot of them know at least some of these answers, but it wouldn't be very fun to watch those. At least that's what I imagine... ya know, to keep myself sane.
That is exactly what it is. The videos are purely for views and clicks. They will only highlight the worst answers out of very many.
Your right, publics schools are doing a fantastic job !!!
Everyone knows the best education comes from big blue cities public schools, with their 10% graduation rate !!!
@@theKrausman ...and you're just a sterling example...Hey, at least we know the grammar teachers are doing a bang-up job. Yeah, many public schools suck, but I didn't see anyone saying otherwise...only that the respondents in the video are cherry-picked...
Watching these kind of videos cause me physical pain. I can see it on your face too. Good job holding on!
I am a 58 year old man, if there is one thing I am thankful for everyday. Is that I was raised by my mother who was a Librarian. As a kid I read almost anything I could get my hands on. To this day, right next to my computer I keep a well worn Dictionary. I refuse to use spell check or ask Google the spelling of a word. It's amazing how well you can retain information if you look it up and find it for yourself.
You are 58 years “of age” you mean! My mom told me that only the Devil is old and i believe her. So never use the word “old” again….Promise?
Amen to that Sir. A great many braincells are lacking today, along with good old fashion work ethic, morals, traditions and .. put simply & honestly, .. common sense. 🙏👍
That’s all well and good! But if you were born ten years ago how old would you be today?
On the bright side, I think the younger generation is kinder, more loving and less apt to slander than the past generations.
It's sad that nobody answers these simple questions correctly, but whats even sadder is that the one asking the questions agrees with them with a "yes" and doesn't give them the answer ...
I love Jamel’s reaction to some of the answers, it’s like they are killing him.😂
If you want to really scare yourself, watch the movie "Idiocracy". It's written by Mike Judge, the creator of "Beavis and Butthead". It basically speculates about what the future will be like if education continues the way it has been going and if people, especially the younger, more impressionable generations, continue to be fed this horses**t that it's "cool" to be be uneducated and stupid. It's simultaneously funny and terrifying.
Exactly
I like money..
That is not a movie, it is a documentary, at least it is more of a documentary then the documentaries coming out of Netflix like Cleopatra
@@ingiford175 It is a sci-fi comedy and a social satire at the same time, but not a documentary.
@robertgieseler1220 It's becoming a documentary though. Lol
My absolute favourite was the "which country did we gain our independence from?" and the girls said something like "but we're canadian", but it's exactly the same answer.
We have nothing to fear our future is in good hands 😅
I have a friend whos' job took him into peoples houses. Something that stood out to him was in low income areas, there were NO books to be seen. Maybe a TV program or similar. In higher income areas, there were books everywhere, in the bedroom, lounge room, everywhere.
This is a small example of how the school systems have failed. Not to mention the families that raised these people and the kids themselves for not having any interest in knowing anything other than pop culture. Thanks to Jamel for bringing this to light!
I grew up in a home with precious few books but with parents with HS educations. My parents wore the old dictionary and World Books (remember them?) OUT helping me look things up and learning about the world. Our port town was on a river, and when we watched tankers from around the world come by, we would go home and look up their flags to see what countries they represented and where they were on the (very modest) map. Oh, that the young adults in the video had some interest in learning beyond pop culture.
Children learn from intelligent and engaged parents. Blame the school system for your failure if that makes you feel better!
@@richardhughes8352 You should re-read what I wrote which was blame to both families and the schools. Anyone that ever attended schools know that they hold a great influence to most students. Let's add one more which is the friends they surround themselves with.
The school system can do nothing if the parents are failures. People try to blame the schools but if the kids act like animals there is nothing they can do. If anything we should take kids from the id!ot parents and put them in a community building, then they might have some hope.
@@pamelahaltmeyer.1288 I remember the World and Year books well. I was fascinated by them. Thanks for sharing.
This hurts my head and breaks my heart but also infuriates me. I know this is awful but you MUST keep exposing the absolute ignorance and complete lack of basic education of our young people today. This guy is doing a very needed experiment and Jamel, you are helping by showing these to many many people with the popularity of your channel. People NEED to be absolutely disgusted by this insane lack of basic education. People truly need to see this and they need to be offended by such blatant stupidity to the point that they make the decision in their hearts and minds that their kids will never be so stupid. This needs to make parents and teachers angry!!! This needs to make parents and teachers more determined than ever not to let this new wave of careless stupidity continue any further than these unfortunate and very obviously uneducated young people in these videos. Yes, this is very hard to watch and hear but it's the ONLY thing that will inspire and hopefully force a change. This type of stupidity NEEDS to be exposed. It needs to offend everyone who is educated. Feeling sad over this does nothing. Feeling mad can do a lot. You can't use grief for anything at all. You can use anger as strong motivation. Come on people, get MAD at this insane lack of education and motivate to stop it from happening to the next generation of young people. Get mad. Make a change. Please. Love and respect to you, Jamel.
Whats worse is this wasnt a failure on the part of the school system. They acheived exactly what they set out to do.
John Stossel has been doing this for years and at Ivy League university’s. It’s just really sad.
Well, teachers have the lowest college grades of any professional group, OK?
Just be a good human.
You are watching and promoting cherrypicked results in ageist, racist, anti-black, anti-minority, and anti-LGBTQI+ propaganda.
Go do the experiment, yourself, and use subjects from various generations. Find out the truth.
@@davisworth5114hat’s not accurate at all. With any industry there are always people who don’t finish at the top of their class, but they’re good enough. I’ve know a lot of teachers over the years who were amazing at their jobs, and none of them were dummies. You understand that they purposely went into teaching right? It’s not like the dumbest people in college are teachers because they’re too stupid to do anything else. We’re you on that video? Cause that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
These people have as much voting power as the best scholars
Exactly! They should be asked these basic questions as a prerequisite.
These questions should be a standardization for people who want internet access.
“If you had to guess”. ( When I’ve already told you. ) Rolling my eyes at this point.
My oldest grandson called me one day while he was in high school, he said granny what’s Pearl Harbor, I said you didn’t learn this in school? He said no, so I explained it to him he had absolutely no clue. And these people are the ones that are going to be our future leaders. This is not only sad but also very scary.
Kids can't answer anything without their cell phone! And then they forget what they found out immediately! we had to go to the library to get our information and with all the work we put in finding the answers to our questions we retained the answers! When I first met my neighbors they had a ten year old son that couldn't tell time, so I taught him how to tell time, and out of the blue when he was fifteen he came up and hugged me and said thank you Grandma Deb, I said what for, he said for teaching me how to tell time when I was little! That melted my heart and he and I are the closest of all of the adopted grandkids. I adopted all of them and they adopted me, nothing legal, just our hearts!
I am a high school teacher in Canada and sadly, I’m not sure that our young people would do much better. So many of these questions could be answered through common sense since he often is giving the answer in the questions. I have thought for many years common sense is missing in our youth. Also, you can teach the students all of this information in engaging ways and apply it to their own lives so they learn it better. They can do well on evaluations. But they are so obsessed with video games and what celebrities are doing that what we have taught them is not important to them. So they forget. If they want an answer, they can Google it. Fast and simple so they don’t need to exercise problem solving or cognitive awareness when they can find what they want with minimal time and effort. These reactions support why I am so concerned for our future. Otherwise, I really enjoy your reactions. ❤You have very good insights and opinions. But then again, we are both old schoolers who actually had to apply ourselves without digital phones (aka - weapons of mass zombification) 😂
I was speaking with a friend who is a teacher. She said that her students would simply mass text the answers to each other during exams. She also said that there was nothing she could do about it as parents had demanded that their children should have constant access to their phones in case of emergency. She estimated that perhaps 10 percent of her students actually knew the material well enough to pass the exams. It’s a world gone mad…
Yeah, it's totally the kids that have changed...
@@ThePittsburghToddy Our students are not allowed to have their phones during tests and they can only use them in class if they are given permission by the teacher. Phones are used in some activities but it varies from school to school. Board policies are set to limit access in the classroom because of distractions.
There’s a simple explanation, they don’t fail at school, I get these kids at work and they fail, and I fire them, sorry, but the world can be hard. School should be too.
@@JasonJohnson-kq2eq This guy get's it!
Jamal, I feel your pain. This is a national embarrassment and very sad for our country.
As Curly once said, "I keep trying to think, but nothing's happening."
I was taught all these questions when I was in pre-school and elementary school. I loved history, geography and math and I still do and I'm still learning. These kids have no future. These are the kids you see on tv destroying their cities and looting their stores. They have nothing to look forward to.
Like you, I am absolutely flabbergasted by these videos. My mother was a teacher for 40 years, and it boggles the mind that people of my generation would be so unaware of how poorly their children and grandchildren are doing. Get rid of Common Core and No Child Left Behind, empower good teachers, and don't let ignorant parents and politicians dictate what's taught in classrooms.
If you don't like what your child is being taught, home-school him/her. Don't have time for that? Then don't complain.
As the meme says: How to scare the New Generation. Put them in a room with a rotary phone, an analog watch, and a television with no remote. Then leave the directions on how to use in cursive.
@@rayhume1971 Do all that, but don’t forget to use their pronouns!!!
Do all that, but don’t forget to use their pronouns!!!
Yea you are right. Its not good for the big picture, when u lie to the stupid, because you are not allowed to offend them. If this is getting worse. The us will collapse to the worst 3th world country in mankind history. European Banks already made preparations for the switch from Dollar to Yuan. Because the chance is very great, that us will lose its Nr1 Power very soon.
Put in a paper map (aka analog GPS) and their heads will explode!!!
@@theunfitfarmer7840 Great idea!!
How the heck could any of these people get through a job interview?
I don't think having a productive job or making their own way is a concern of these people.
some places are so hard up for workers they will take ANYONE.
they cant.
my store has interviewed 20 in the last 3 months.
havent hired a single one.
we did hire a couple before when we were laxer with hiring
one was legit mad they had to come at the EXACT same time ever shift and go home at the same time
they couldnt just sorta wander in roughly within an hour or two of when they should start and then go home sorta close to the hour their shift ends..
As a person that has done hiring and interviews in the recent past they actually cannot. They can't answer questions, can't visualize a hypothetical situation, show up late and are some are dressed inappropriately.. they answer some questions with a shrug and I don't know. It's really sad and scary
A recent article in USA Today said that employers are finding that they’re needing to terminate Gen Z new hires within their first two weeks of employment at seven times the rate of prior generations. Lack of employment skills was not the primary reason for their terminations however, employers overwhelmingly said that lack of productivity and lack of cooperation and willingness to follow instructions were the reasons given.
Greetings from Denmark the Capitol of Sweden on the continent of Africa 🙏
This is the dumbing down of America. I see it first hand working in a middle school. I only work in the cafeteria but when these children can't answer simple questions you understand how well this dumbing down is working.
My best guess as to why people are so bad at these questions is because they were never taught how to learn. They were only ever taught how to memorize information for tests. So as soon as they are asked something that they didn't memorize, or have forgotten, their brain has a 505 error.
You hit the nail on the head there with that answer.
@@thatoneguybones8036 the parents are both working to pay the bills and told the schools are ment to teach there kids, but the schools are designed to make the natural desire to learn shrivel up and die along with creativity and get mindless compliant worker drones that inform on there nabor and support the current thing.
@@thatoneguybones8036 the internet, tv, friends, video games, and books in a library also provide information. Observing anything at all provides information.
I was never told how to learn and became a doctor.
The problem with these kids is that they just don’t care for the world around them.
You can learn something even by reading the TV guide- if you are interested.
@@Celisar1 True as well. However you most likely did not go threw the same school system. It gets worse every year. It has been killing off the desire to learn and creativity. I only survived it because I gave up on school teaching me anything and mostly taught myself. Society and parents who treat there kids like they can do no wrong arn't helping either. Side note if I used the wrong there, it's because I find it dose not matter, seeing as all the spellings sound the same when you say them out loud and nobody questions what spelling of it you mean.
My nephew and niece are 35 and 31 years old and the difference between their public school education was shocking. Washington state passed some education law and the school district started teaching to the state test. My sister would ask her daughter's teachers about different things her son had done and they said it's not on the test so we can't spend classroom time on it. My niece graduated not knowing basic knowledge that her brother knew because of this test she had to take. I don't know if it got better or worse in the thirteen the years since she graduated but I fear it's worse now.
Just be a good human.
You are watching and promoting cherrypicked results in ageist, racist, anti-black, anti-minority, and anti-LGBTQI+ propaganda.
Go do the experiment, yourself, and use subjects from various generations. Find out the truth.
Don't blame the kids; blame the parents!
I'm 68 raised by single mom in ghetto. Found 24 volume encyclopedia in trash read all by age 14. Haven't met my equal.
This needs to be shown every single day !!
Jamal, I remember coming home from school one rainy day and was late home. My mum asked where I had been and I told her - truthfully- that my friend and I got disctracted making leaf and flower boats and floating them along the gutters. She didn't believe me at first because we were 15. But we were just enjoying one of those things we used to do as little kids.
It isn't anything having to do with cell phones! As a 63 year old woman with a 40 year old daughter that used to be quite intelligent couldn't answer any of these questions when I was telling her about the video! But hey they all look cute and they can giggle and wiggle and know all the Kardashians and that's where it's at!
So? So what do you think caused your daughter to dumb down?
@@bcaye Believe me when I say I don't have a clue!
@@robinbeveridge7741, that's too bad. Do you talk about it with her?
Groucho Marx used to ask game show contestants, “Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?”
Here is some hope:
I asked my Gen Z daughter ALL of these questions and she NAILED everyone one without hesitation ❤️❤️
I like the 1800 BC answer. I would say all is lost. I am hoping Jesus comes to save me soon.
11:32: "Don't be dumb, just know". Best advise of the entire video. Sheesh!
Unbelievable. Its sad. Social media and mobile phones have fried their brains.
Do you know what happens to a teacher who insists that the students learn, complete homework on time, pass tests, etc? They get fired. They get fired because the parents of these kids complain that their kids aren't happy about being forces to learn.
FACTS!!!!!!
A teacher I know told a kid to get of their phone 3 times. After the 3rd time, the student was sent to the office and the parent was notified. Then, the teacher was written up for unprofessional behavior.
@@coach4732Wow, what i saw and heard in this video is so sad. I was thought that the kids of today is our future. omg….i’m starting to fear the future of my now adult kids
show this video to those parents who complain
They can get exceptions, and opt out of standardized testing. Because it's "not the parents or the childs fault" it's the way schools teach them. Take responsibility to educate and teach your kids, don't give them special treatment to let them skirt their education because you can't handle making sure they are learning and getting the education they deserve and need.
@mjtan533 Or better yet, call parents in (for the third time, after they don't show the first two), and give the child the quiz in front of them.
You're right about the cell phones. People are addicted to and hypnotized by them. Very damaging to a person's ability to function.
Social media has given young folk the attention span of a mosquito on meth. If you ask a question longer than 6 or 7 words, they lose interest before you finish the question.
my neighbors kid has legit been brain damaged by unrestricted game and tv coupled with no parenting.
when he speaks to his boy, he has to grab his chin with his hand and force the kid to look at him while hes asking or explaining things to him,or he will just look around for a TV screen to stare at and completely ignore him..
of course dad blames mom for him being like that, and mom blames dad and neither do a damn thing to sort him out.
hes 10 years old and already utterly dysfunctional. he will go from childhood to living off government handouts without ever having worked a day in his life or having done a single useful thing..
he cant even make friends because he never wants to do anything but watch inane little ( too little for his age) kid shows and play video games and he gets upset when the other kids want to go outside and ride bikes or play an outdoor game.. SMH
I've seen TL; DRs on paragraphs. Freaking PARAGRAPHS! Don't tell me you don't have time to read it when you're just messing around on your phone!
I'm a (dutch) teacher. Not gonna do my own reaction video, but here are some of my thoughts. I think you are correct about the phones. Believe it or not, we have been saying this since smartphones and even the internet became a thing. We have been shshed and told that common knowledge isn't that important any more and we should adjust our teaching accordingly. Same for language learning etc. ("In the future our devices will do that for us"). Secondly, too much people telling us how to do our work, too little trust by school admin and parents, and too much administrative s*** makes our core jobs so so much harder... Add to that special ed kids in regular school systems. Well... I could go on... I get that these videos are supposed to let people do 🤦🏼♀️ or 😂, but I feel for these kids. They have been robbed. And not being able to answer some of these questions will actually make their life harder. Makes me sad.
the phones and the internet happened ALONGSIDE the societal change that made education decline
BOTH of those things could be used to provide an AMAZING education as they are merely tools
but a shovel digs graves as well as it digs farms..
its the over permissive lazy society we created that made kids stupid.
I hoenstly agree that teaching general knowledge is not as important as it was in the past. I nthe past it gave an advantage in certain jobs and it can increase the salary based on having that knowledge. but now it's accessible at any time, so it's no longer a big advantage. If that was the only area where it's needed then yes, teaching it is not important.
But, general knowledge has a role in so many other aspects in our life. It's important to know continents and countries when voting on foreign policy. It's important to know the details of your country and other countries to avoid getting fooled by people and especially politicians. (Those are just small examples). So yeah, it's still crucial to teach knowledge.
In my personal opinion, if teaching needs to change something, it would be to teach people HOW to get the knowledge more than memorizing facts. the amount of necessary knowledge is increasing too much, and teachers can't be expected to provide all of that. But if teachers guide student towards the how, that would help them even more.
@@samygafsi6429 Yes, I'd agree on the need to teach the how. And add to that the way to weigh information. And have their own valuesbased opinion on things. I also believe that as a society we should think about the consequences of letting technology take over certain things. Example. I'm a language teacher. I see (and can appreciate!) technology playing a part in translation and such. The students are less and less capable of learning and retaining vocabulary. I have to assume that will have its influence on their learning ability as a whole, the way they relate to other countries/cultures, etc.
@@nathaliebeijen7244 I see it the same way as you. And to be clear, I don't place the blame on teachers. The education system is the one that needs to adapt a little bit, to be more precise, the testing methods needs to be adjusted. Not everything should be tested as a memory test, that doesn't make sense. Just like testing with an essay with language, science materials should be tested with some experiments, research and other methods as well.
but mostly, I believe that the parents, society and media play the biggest role in the student life. If parents fail to push the kids confidence to ask question and dicover new things, they will not pay attention or engage in class. If parents or society kills the natiral curiosity of the kid, then they are doomed.
The phone are smarter than the users.
I know it’s funny that he just says yes to everything, but it’s also kind of contributing to their ignorance. They don’t learn and then they think they’re right.
It would take an entire day for him to explain to any of these persons, on an individual basis, factual information, and he is trying to create content.
And it keeps the interviewees happy and willing to screw up the following questions for our amazement and incredulousness. Time to move to Thailand or Vietnam where they know much more about American history, math, and any other subject whatsoever.
hes not there to undo the laziness they deployed in school
he is a reporter not an educator
They literally don't care. They have no desire to learn, this is painfully obvious.
They wouldn't learn anyway. He tried repeatedly to explain to that last girl that if she were born 10 years ago, she would be 10 now, and she just kept saying "No".
He used to say no and people argued with him, so now he just says yes.
These people have the same right to vote as people who could answer these questions.
Now this explains so much now - and they are walking around NOT knowing this information that used to be taught in our schools and on PBS and National Geographic. Also if I had reacted to these basic questions my parents would've swatted by beeehind.
I live in Europe and we had to learn 2 foreign languages in school, plus latin. I hated school, but now I am glad that my teachers insisted that we study, study, study. This makes me sad for these kids
I can vouch for the fact the overall a European education is vastly superior to American education. I have been hiring kids out of college for my business for years and I can vouch for the fact that there's an enormous difference in the educational quality of college graduates from 30 years ago vs now. This is a long-standing problem and it's getting so much worse.
Isn't Latin a foreign language?
@@elemar5 Uh, not considered a foreign language. It’s a DEAD language but has enormous impact on vocabulary knowledge, the romance languages’ structure and vocabulary and is used in law and other areas. I took two years of Latin (and French) in high school and it’s definitely useful.
@@jramsey9690 If it wasn't dead it would be a foreign language.
I went to college after 32 years, and the counselor told me I would do better than new graduates from high school on the placement test. Guess what, I did.
When I returned to college in my late 20s, I had to take some basic level English courses for the degree. Very few of the youngsters in the class had learned how to write ANYTHING. This was in the 1970s. So what we are seeing now is a slow but steady decline in education. How low can it go? Wait 10 years. I'm glad I'll probably not be around, but I have kids and grandkids I worry about.
I meant to say grumbled
Not surprised. I went back to college when I was 27. Already had a bunch of college credits, but was required to take basic level English. No biggie. I think the instructor asked us to write a short essay (2-3 pages or so) on some subject. Also no biggie. The majority of the kids in the class were totally freaked out because they had never been asked to turn in a paper before. I was required to write term papers every semester in my junior and senior years of high school, plus papers in 9th and 10th grades. That was 40+ years ago, but I knew then that the educational system was failing. A young lady I know is a college English teacher. She is so discouraged because the kids in her classes are totally incapable of writing, and of course, they don’t read. They are functionally illiterate when they graduated from high school. Unless America improves its educational system-and in a hurry-just to teach basic reading, writing, math, to turn out literate graduates, you can forget any progress in America. All this BS about America being the “greatest country in the world” is total propaganda. Combined with social media and smartphones, we’re quickly becoming a nation of morons who think they are educated…and they aren’t even close. All this talk about parents controlling their kids’ education is hogwash. If the PARENTS are illiterate, their kids are going to be worse. And they certainly are.
Interesting points, Jamel. I loved popsicle sticks so much, that I have saved up boxes and boxes to use to make art and science projects (My wife hates that I have boxes all over the place.) I have raced a few of them in the gutter as well. I had forgotten about that! I think smart phones have made the problem worse, but I remember seeing the same types of lack of knowledge from kids who watched too much TV. You are right, though. I don't see kids even riding bikes anymore. Thanks for you comments and for keeping it real!
Learning how to tell time in the 90’s you started with the analog.. the digital was the hard one. We really are going backwards..
Yes. Exactly.
An analog clock, you get the time from a quick flick of the eyes over the dial..with digital, you actually have to pause and concentrate briefly to read it.
If this is the future of this country and possibly the world. We are basically DOOMED !
Former American history teacher over here. I'm horrified but not shocked.
wow that must be like the most pointless job these days. especially if you try and teach ACTUAL US history.. like Irish were the first slaves here not africans and the democrats were pro racism and slavery thorughout their whole existence..
I saw this and ask my 15 yr daughter some of these questions...she got 95% right...maybe there is hope?
A fifteen year old should have been able to answer every question.
It’s easy to laugh at these but it’s a direct reflection of where we are as a society 😔. And these are the people who we will turn to in our old age 👍
Can you imagine having to depend on any of these youngsters ? I'm 70 and take care of my 90 year old Mother. I can't help but believe that anyone these kids have to care of will be abused.
It's definitely a different world now and I grew up in the 50s, 60s, 70s. They have no clue what they're missing out on.
If it's any consolation, I went to UCLA in my old age, and met a bunch of young people there. They were so smart and motivated to learn. They all had big dreams and wanted to change the world for the better. What we're seeing here is the worst examples. Not all young people are dumb, you can be sure of that.
Just most of them, dangerous.
I'm so glad that I grew up when I did.
I think a few of my brain cells fell out of my ears too🤦🏻♀️
Shout out to you bro, my name is also Jamel, I'm from Barbados and I too share memories of racing sticks, paper boats or whatever floats in the gutters after school in the rainy season. Peace and love.
I wish he would ask each of these people who they voted for.
if this was´nt so sad i´d be lmao...i´m 43 and when i see this i´m speechless...wtf is happening to the younger generations, the mental decay i´m witnessing seems to be the biggest threat for mankind...! but rest assure this is not just in america, this is global...grew up in cali and been living in germany the past 26 years and travelled alot especially threw europe and the sh*t i´ve seen on a daily basis coming from these generation xyz´s is beyond belief and just blows my mind! if this is our future then fck climate change or evil a.i. humanity is doomed no matter what!
um dont toss gen X in with these braindeads. we went to school in the 1970s and actually got an education..
There is NO WAY any of these people will actually go and vote. They are insular and narcissistic.
I hear what you're saying but I wouldn't bet in it.
They'd take a selfie to show themselves voting (based on what they're told) just to gain likes.
@@danbaumann8273 Yeah, shout out to fellow Albertan! CA
Vote? Did you say vote?? They'll become President.
The DNC will vote for them.
Jamel your reactions to these are absolutely priceless.
I feel extremely fortunate, I was schooled in California in the 50's and 60's, outstanding education. Joined the Army in 69 and travelled the world. I soon learned how much the school system did not teach, so I started self learnng, the school system is in the ICU on life support.
I'm form England and its just the same here all brain dead and I haven't got a clue what they learn at school it's scary that this is our future .
Love your content and keep it up my friend .
I worked in a collage dorm for 37 years I watched them get dumber each year
You worked in a "collage" dorm? And for 37 years? This sentence is suffering a bit.
You are right on Jamel.
We are in serious trouble!
Home School your children!
✌👽👍🧠🌌♾🇺🇸
While some parents def shouldn't do that. Like my ex, mother to my son. Only thing he would learn then is how to paint her fingernails;)
Just remember that the interviewer probably asked about three or four hundred people and received correct answers but showed us four dozen or so of the most absurd answers.
I wondered about that. It makes good UA-cam content. But, those kids looked 'normal'. They didn't seem to be idiots. I think these 'normal' kids needed a decent education.
I’m so glad I was born in the 50’s and educated through the 60’s. I would hate to think I was that stupid
Everybody is trying to look good first and win or learn second.
I'm a Canadian and I knew the answers to all of these questions so we are all not stupid up here. It does show you though that youth from all over are so out of touch. I was travelling a few weeks ago, now I'm a woman pushing 60 and I was surrounded by people in this age group, and every single one of them spent the trip staring HARD at their phones and eating chips! I would just shake my head and go back to reading my book and I'm sure if they happened to notice I was there, they probably thought I was the one that was out of touch. lol I want to say in defense of the people in the video that they were out partying so they could be drinking or high but I did those things when I was that age and could still answer those questions...yup, even who was the American Vice President at that time (at age 22), it was George H. W. Bush. I was not interested in politics but I was raised in a house that watch the nightly news and still do. Love you channel and please never change. Take care
These questions ahould have been able to be answered by someone in the third grade! They DO NOT read. They don't know how to write. They can't even do simple arithmetic. Totally ignorant and just stupid.
They may have been reading a book on their phone.
I assure you, not all younger people are as 'special' as the ones featured in these videos.
Concerning the cell phones, let's be honest and call it what it is, an addiction which is out of control and incurable.
SO...why are kids still allowed to devote their time and lives to their smartphones? Take them away!